I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORIn a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.
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I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I’ll capitalize both of those R’s, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it’s what is most real.
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Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
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There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s address
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The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.
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When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, ‘Here, I guess, since this is where I am.’
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I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I’ve relaxed enormously since then. I’m the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.
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I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.
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I didn’t want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
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I’m a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like “Christian.”
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The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.
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When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.
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